The following is a partial list of false prophecies about the Rapture, battle of Armageddon, or Return of Christ in my lifetime (post 1960).
| Date | Person | Group or other info |
| 1964 – October | Seventh Day Adventist | |
| 1972 | Herbert W. Armstrong | Worldwide Church of God |
| 1975 | Herbert W. Armstrong | Worldwide Church of God |
| 1975 | Watchtower Bible & Tract Society expected Armageddon | |
| 1981 | Chuck Smith | 1948 plus 40 year generation minus 7 year tribulation |
| 1982 | Pat Robertson | televangelist |
| 1982 – June 21 | Benjamin Creme | Buddhist related |
| 1988 | Hal Lidsey | The Late Great Planet Earth 1948 plus 40 year generation |
| 1988 | Edgar C. Whisenant | 88 Reasons Why The Rapture Will Be in 1988 |
| 1989 | Edgar C. Whisenant | The Final Shout: Rapture Report 1989 |
| 1991 | Louis Farrakhan | Nation of Islam |
| 1993 | Edgar C. Whisenant | 23 Reasons Why a Pre-Tribulation Rapture Looks Like it will Occur on Rosh-Hashanah 1993 |
| 1994 – September 6 | Harold Camping | general manager of Family Radio and Bible teacher |
| 1997 – October 23 | James Ussher | 17th Century Bishop expected the end as it was 6,000 years after creation |
| 1999-2009 | Jerry Falwell | predicted in 1999 that the Second Coming would probably be within 10 years |
| 2000 | Frank Cherry | Founder of the Black Hebrew Israelite religion |
| 2000 | Ed Dobson | The End: Why Jesus Could Return by A.D. 2000 |
| 2000 | Timothy Dwight IV | President of Yale University foresaw Christ’s Millennium starting by 2000 |
| 2000 | Edgar Cayce | psychic |
| 2000 | Sir Isaac Newton | scientist |
| 2000 – April 6 | James Harmston | The leader of the True and Living Church of Jesus Christ of Saints of the Last Days |
| 2011 – May 21 | Harold Camping | general manager of Family Radio and Bible teacher |
| 2011 – October 21 | Harold Camping | general manager of Family Radio and Bible teacher |
| 2011 – September 29 | Ronald Weinland | The Church of God, Preparing for the Kingdom of God (COG-PKG) is an apocalypticist splinter sect of the Worldwide Church of God (WCG) |
| 2012 – May 27 | Ronald Weinland | The Church of God, Preparing for the Kingdom of God (COG-PKG) is an apocalypticist splinter sect of the Worldwide Church of God (WCG) |
| 2012 | Jack Van Impe | televangelist |
| 2012 – December 21 | New Age Nuts | Mesoamerican Long Count calendar ended |
| 2013 – May 18 | Ronald Weinland | The Church of God, Preparing for the Kingdom of God (COG-PKG) is an apocalypticist splinter sect of the Worldwide Church of God (WCG) |
| 2012 | Jack Van Impe | televangelist |
| 2015 – September 28 | Mark Blitz & John Hagee | Blood Moon Prophecy |
| 2017 | David Meade | Predicted the end on YouTube |
| 2018 | Henry Morris | Morris claimed that Worlds War I was the first sign of Christ’s return which would occur before that generation died |
| 2019 – Ronald Weinland | The Church of God, Preparing for the Kingdom of God (COG-PKG) is an apocalypticist splinter sect of the Worldwide Church of God (WCG) | |
| 2020 | Jean Dixon | psychic |
| 2020 – July 22 | Chad and Lori Daybell | Multiple murders |
| 2021 | F. Kenton “Doc” Beshore | 1948 plus70 to 80 year generation |
| 2025 – September 23-24 | Joshua Mhlakela | South African preacher |
| 2025 – October 7-8 | Joshua Mhlakela | South African preacher |
The list also does not include the voluminous number of prophecy pimps in modern pulpits claiming all the signs are in place and it could be any minute. In the Old Testament God’s people were to execute false prophets, in the New we just buy their books. WTF?
